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In the north-central area of Sri Lanka, dry plains and rocky outcrops are home to the famous Cultural Triangle. The Cultural Triangle is so called because it includes three major sites that form a triangle. Anuradhapura to the north, Polonaruwa to the east and Kandy to the south-west.
The ‘Mount Everest’ of scuba-diving, the Andrea Doria was an Italian passenger liner before it was sunk near Nantucket in 1956, when 52 people died (51 from immediate impact). It lies at a forbidding depth of 73 metres and is only for the most experienced technical divers – 15 divers have died here.
Due to the luxurious appointments and initially goo...
SS Benwood was a steam cargo ship of the early twentieth century. Built by Craig, Taylor & Co Ltd., Stockton on Tees, she entered service with Joseph Hoult & Co. Ltd, Liverpool. She passed through several owners, before being lost in a collision off the coast of Key Largo, Florida in 1942. Her wreck is now a popular dive site.
The Norwegian merchant freighterB...
TheCubawas a steamship owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Originally launched in 1897 as the German SSCoblenz, she was seized by the United States in 1917, and named SSSachem, until Pacific Mail purchased her from the Shipping Board on February 6, 1920 for US$400,000 and renamed SSCuba.
Pacific Mail first used theCubato carry passengers and cargo between San...
Shipwreck Trail is a 5.9 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Palos Verdes Peninsula, California that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as difficult. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, nature trips, and birding and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
The was built in Newcastle upon Tyne at the C. Mitchell and C. Iron Ship Builders and was launched in 1872. The ship was owned by a Mr W. Milburn. Powered by both sail and steam, she was planned for the route from Britain to Bombay.
Three years later, in January 1876, she set sail from Liverpool loaded with steel and timber bound for Bombay. There the cargo was sold a...
The was a British oil tanker sunk without casualties by a German air attack at Seyðisfjörður, Iceland on 10 February 1944.
Iceland, which remained neutral during World War II, had been occupied by Britain in May 1940 and, in April 1941, by the United States.
"El Grillo" is Spanish for "The Cricket".
The steam ship SSEl Grillowas built in 1922 at Armstrong...
Grecianwas a steel bulk freighter built in 1891 by Globe Iron Works at Cleveland, Ohio. She was a sister ship toNorman, also wrecked nearby. The ship was 296 feet (90 m) long, with a beam of 40 feet (12 m) and a gross register tonnage of 2,348 tons.
Grecianwas built to carry iron ore for the Chapin Iron Mining Company, and ran between the company's docks in Escanaba, ...
There have been at least two efforts to turn the Cortes Bank into an island nation. The most notable occurred in late 1966, when a team of entrepreneurs planned to turn the Cortes Bank into the constitutional monarchy of Abalonia. The general plan was to scuttle a WWII era concrete hulled freighter—probably the Tampa-built McClosky ship Richard Lewis Humphrey, w...
TheNormanwas a bulk freighter; its wreck in Lake Huron (also designated 20UH018) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
TheNormanhad an overall length of 296.5 feet, a 40.4 foot beam, 21 foot hold depth, and a gross tonnage of 2,304 tons. It had a raised forecastle and pilothouse, an aft cabin that housed the propulsion machinery, and an open ...
The Coolidge was a luxury liner converted to use as troop ship by the US, and sank in 1942 when she ran into mines. Divers can swim through numerous holds and decks (earthquakes have collapsed sections). There are guns, cannons, Jeeps, helmets, trucks and personal supplies, a beautiful statue of "The Lady" (a porcelain relief of a lady riding a unicorn) chandeliers, a...
On December 21, 1952, the SS Quartette, a 422-foot-long (129 m) Liberty ship weighing 7,198 tons, struck the eastern reef of the atoll at a speed of 10.5 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph). The ship was driven further onto the reef by rough waves and 35 mph (56 km/h) winds, which collapsed the forward bow and damaged two forward holds. The crew was evacuated by the SS Frontenac Vic...
SS Sapona was a concrete-hulled cargo steamer that ran aground near Bimini during a hurricane in 1926. The wreck of the ship is easily visible above the water, and is both a navigational landmark for boaters and a popular dive site.
Sapona was built by the Liberty Ship Building Company of Wilmington, North Carolina as part of a fleet of concrete ships authorized by Wo...
SS Sir Walter Scott is a small steamship that has provided pleasure cruises and a ferry service on Loch Katrine in the scenic Trossachs of Scotland for more than a century, and is the only surviving screw steamer in regular passenger service in Scotland. It is named after the writer Walter Scott, who set his 1810 poem Lady of the Lake, and his 1818 novel Rob Roy aroun...
Barbados has one of the Caribbean's pre-eminent shipwrecks, the SS Stavronikita. The island's signature wreck is a 365-foot Greek freighter sitting in 70 to 140 feet of water. The freighter was deliberately sunk to form an artificial reef, this wreck is now home to numerous fish and corals.
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